Minutes of the Board of Directors for the USGenWeb Census Project

Meeting held July 14, 2005 via Internet using mIRC beginning at 8:26 PM 
EST and ending at 9:45 PM EST.

Present:
    Ellen Horner
    Linda Talbott
    Ron Eason
    April Phillips
    Lana Magiera
    Veda Mendoza
    Sandy Onbey

A quorum being set, the meeting was called to order by Ron Eason.

This being the first meeting of the new term, no Minutes of the June 
2005 meeting were sent, therefore there was no discussion nor 
corrections.

Officer, board, or standing committee reports:  None

Special orders addressed: No special orders

Old Business: None 

Ron Eason requested that we eliminate normal procedures in order to get 
through the meeting while everyone was available.  Everyone was in 
agreement.

New Business:

First order of business was the election of new officers for the 2005-
2006 term of office.

Sandy Onbey nominated Ellen Horner as President. April Phillips 
seconded the nomination.  Ellen accepted the nomination.  There being 
no other nominations, a vote was cast and the nomination passed with 5 
ayes, 1 no vote and 1 not present.

April Phillips and Sandy Onbey nominated Veda Mendoza as Vice-
President.  Linda Talbott seconded the nomination.  Linda accepted the 
nomination.  There being no other nominations, a vote was cast and the 
nomination passed with 5 ayes, 1 no vote and 1 not present.

Veda Mendoza nominated Sandy Onbey as Secretary.  Ron Eason seconded 
the nomination.  April Phillips nominated Linda Talbott.  Linda 
declined the nomination before it could be seconded.  Sandy accepted 
the nomination.  There being no other nominations, a vote was cast and 
the nomination passed with 6 ayes and 1 not present.

Sandy nominated Linda Talbott as Membership Secretary.  Ellen Horner 
seconded the nomination.  Linda declined the nomination.  Veda Mendoza 
nominated April Phillips and Ron Eason seconded it.  April accepted the 
nomination.  There being no other nominations, a vote was cast and the 
nomination passed with 6 ayes and 1 not present.

At this time, Ron Eason turned over the gavel to the newly elected 
President of the USGW Census Project:  Ellen Horner.

Ellen expressed appreciation to Ron Eason for all he has done for the 
Census Project and then asked that Connie Burkett, Project Coordinator 
to be invited to join us again for the remainder of the meeting.

MEETING DATE:

It was decided to change our meeting night to the 2nd Thursday of the 
month and for the time being it will begin at 8 PM EST/7 PM CST.  A 
decision for the time of the SC meetings will be tabled for the time 
being until a poll has been conducted on a majority preference from 
all.

PROJECT NAME DISCUSSION:

A long discussion was held about the logos on our website.  We are 
incorporated with the name The USGenWeb Census Project and it is our 
Service Mark. 

Several felt that we should contact the “other” Census Project and ask 
that they cease and desist to use our name…”Officially”  A suggestion 
that we have a lawyer compose the letter for us was also discussed.

In the end, it was felt that more discussion and research be held on 
the subject before a final decision was made.  Ellen and Ron were to 
draft a letter that could be used if the decision to send it were 
favorable in the end.

The meeting was adjourned by Ellen Horner at 9:42 PM to reconvene on 
August 11, 2005 at 8:00 PM EST

Items for next Board Meeting:

1.  Further discussion on the infringement of our Service Mark.

2.  Further discussion on the use of logos on our website.